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The business value of product and production ergonomics for companies

Jan Dul

Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University The Netherlands [e-mail] http://www.rsm.nl/jdul

M Instytut Wzornictwa Przemysłowego

Content

•    Why society needs ergonomics?

•    What is modern ergonomics?

•    How to create business value with ergonomics?

-Examples product ergonomics -Examples production ergonomics

•    Conclusions

No need for ergonomics		Ergonomics
during 2 million years
Y* łpa ^ y ■ | lndividual produotion Designer r production Maker ^User		“The silent engine in the evolution of human society" (lan Noy 2000)

Statement 1		Gap between Designer, Maker, and User
In the past 2 million years, the short distance between designer, maker and user, guaranteed a good fit between Products and users, and between production processes and workers (implicit ergonomics knowledge)		iTj lndividual production / / \ Craft / / \ production j* / Y Industrial Designer r ~ production Maker ^User “Modern Times”